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Forums - Music Discussion - Worldwide Weekly Album Sales Chart: 'Madonna debuts at #1 with 740k, Adele falls to #3'

Album Chart
week 10 / 2012 - March 10
the top-selling albums according to global
sales figures and national album charts
issue date: March 1, 2012
copyright (C) 2012 - all rights reserved

 

1 / 1
week 57
Adele - 21 9
XL Recordings - 520.000 - 35 weeks at No.1
 
2 / 9
week 3
Whitney Houston - The Greatest Hits 4
RCA - 236.000
3 / 3
week 4
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
Stranger / Interscope - 115.000
 
Kat-Tun - Chain
Johnny's Entertainment Japan - 110.000 - Hot Shot Debut
8 / -
week 2
Whitney Houston - Ultimate Collection
RCA - 86.000
 
4 / 10
week 71
Adele - 19 2
XL Recordings - 84.000
 
Fun. - Some Nights
Fueled By Ramen - 74.000
9 / 6
week 4
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
Columbia - 73.000
 
5 / -
week 2
Emeli Sande - Our Version Of Events
Virgin - 71.000
 
34 / -
week 2
Soundtrack - The Bodyguard 19
Arista - 70.000 - Largest Sales Increase
Tyga - Careless World
Cash Money - 65.000
10 / 8
week 19
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto 2
Parlophone / Capitol - 62.000
 
7 / 2
week 3
Van Halen - A Different Kind Of Truth
Interscope - 61.000
 
21 / 32
week 23
Ed Sheeran - Plus
Asylum - 57.000
6 / 5
week 3
Paul McCartney - Kisses On The Bottom
Hear Music - 57.000
 
12 / 21
week 11
Gotye - Making Mirrors
Universal Music Australia - 56.000
 
13 / 13
week 14
Rihanna - Talk That Talk 
Def Jam - 51.000
 
11 / 20
week 65
Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans 2
Elektra / Warner Bros. - 50.000
 
14 / 11
week 36
LMFAO - Sorry For Party Rocking
Interscope - 47.000
 
17 / 16
week 12
Black Keys - El Camino
Nonesuch - 43.000
 
15 / 15
week 26
David Guetta - Nothing But The Beat
EMI Music - 41.000
 
23 / 31
week 17
Florence & The Machine - Ceremonials
Universal Republic / Island - 39.000
36 / -
week 2
Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston 11
Arista - 39.000
16 / 14
week 12
Amy Winehouse - Lioness: Hidden Treasures 
Island - 39.000
 
25 / 29
week 12
One Direction - Up All Night
Syco Music - 35.000
 
20 / 19
week 15
Drake - Take Care
Cash Money - 32.000
 
Sleigh Bells - Reign Of Terror
Mom & Pop - 32.000
Chiddy Bang - Breakfast
I.R.S. / Virgin - 31.000
Michel Teló - Na Balada
Panttanal / Roster Music / Som Livre - 31.000
19 / 18
week 15
Kelly Clarkson - Stronger
RCA - 29.000
 
32 / 33
week 8
Skrillex - Bangarang
Big Beat / Atlantic - 28.000
 
- / -
week 12
Whitney Houston - I Look To You 
Arista - 27.000
Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love 3
Arista - 27.000
Whitney Houston - I'm Your Baby Tonight 2
Arista - 26.000
31 / 24
week 14
Nickelback - Here And Now
Roadrunner - 24.000
 
30 / 28
week 27
Foster The People - Torches
Startime / Columbia - 24.000
 
40 / 23
week 3
Xavier Naidoo - Danke Fürs Zuhören
Naidoo Records / Tonpool Germany - 24.000
 
18 / 26
week 24
Lady Antebellum - Own The Night
Capitol Nashville - 23.000
 
39 / -
week 17
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne
Roc-A-Fella / Def Jam - 22.000
 
Sean Paul - Tomahawk Technique
Atlantic - 21.000

albums with sales gains this week     albums with global sales of 2 million copies

with additional 2 million copies indicated by a number




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expected more from tyga, rack city bitch.



Train wreck said:
expected more from tyga, rack city bitch.

His album wasnt released physically, so 65k is actually pretty good!



Adele is one of the very few female singers I just don't like. Similar to Taylor Swift, I find her boring. I don't see what is appealing about the music she performs.



I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.

So Adele has been number 1 in pretty much every chart in the world, here in Mexico 21 managed to be triple platinum with 21 and platinum + gold for Royal Alber Hall and that is a lot for a english album



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1 / 1
week 58
Adele - 21 9
XL Recordings - 429.000 - 36 weeks at No.1
 
Ikimonogakari - Newtral
Epic Japan - 193.000 - Hot Shot Debut
2 / 2
week 4
Whitney Houston - The Greatest Hits 4
RCA - 174.000
 
3 / 3
week 5
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
Stranger / Interscope - 104.000
 
Big Bang - Alive
YG Entertainment South Korea - 103.000
6 / 4
week 72
Adele - 19 2
XL Recordings - 71.000
 
WZRD - WZRD
G.O.O.D. / Universal Republic - 69.000
5 / 8
week 3
Whitney Houston - Ultimate Collection
RCA - 64.000
 
10 / 34
week 3
Soundtrack - The Bodyguard 19
Arista - 63.000
 
8 / 9
week 5
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
Columbia - 60.000
 
- / -
week 2
Pink Floyd - The Wall 15
Columbia - 59.000 -
Largest Sales Increase
16 / 12
week 12
Gotye - Making Mirrors
Universal Music Australia - 59.000
9 / 5
week 3
Emeli Sande - Our Version Of Events
Virgin - 57.000
 
12 / 10
week 20
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto 2
Parlophone / Capitol - 55.000
 
19 / 14
week 37
LMFAO - Sorry For Party Rocking
Interscope - 54.000
13 / 7
week 4
Van Halen - A Different Kind Of Truth
Interscope - 50.000
 
17 / 13
week 15
Rihanna - Talk That Talk
Def Jam - 49.000
 
14 / 21
week 24
Ed Sheeran - Plus
Asylum - 47.000
 
Cranberries - Roses
Downtown/ Cooking Vinyl - 46.000
20 / 17
week 13
Black Keys - El Camino
Nonesuch - 45.000
18 / 11
week 66
Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans 2
Elektra / Warner Bros. - 42.000
 
21 / 15
week 27
David Guetta - Nothing But The Beat
EMI Music - 42.000
15 / 6
week 4
Paul McCartney - Kisses On The Bottom
Hear Music - 41.000
 
11 / -
week 2
Tyga - Careless World
Cash Money - 38.000
 
34 / -
week 2
Whitney Houston - I'm Your Baby Tonight 3
Arista - 36.000
33 / -
week 2
Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love 4
Arista - 36.000
26 / 20
week 16
Drake - Take Care
Cash Money - 36.000
22 / 23
week 18
Florence & The Machine - Ceremonials
Universal Republic / Island - 34.000
 
24 / 16
week 13
Amy Winehouse - Lioness: Hidden Treasures
Island - 34.000
 
25 / 25
week 13
One Direction - Up All Night
Syco Music - 34.000
 
23 / 36
week 3
Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston 11
Arista - 34.000
 
Whitney Houston - Just Whitney
Arista - 33.000
29 / -
week 2
Michel Teló - Na Balada
Panttanal / Roster Music / Som Livre - 31.000
 
32 / -
week 13
Whitney Houston - I Look To You
Arista - 30.000
31 / 32
week 9
Skrillex - Bangarang
Big Beat / Atlantic - 27.000
 
7 / -
week 2
Fun. - Some Nights
Fueled By Ramen - 26.000
 
30 / 19
week 16
Kelly Clarkson - Stronger
RCA - 26.000
 
38 / 18
week 25
Lady Antebellum - Own The Night
Capitol Nashville - 26.000
39 / 39
week 18
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne
Roc-A-Fella / Def Jam - 24.000
35 / 31
week 15
Nickelback - Here And Now
Roadrunner - 22.000

Here you are again. Adele #1 with astonishing sales.



It's pretty much guaranteed that Adele will have the best selling album of 2012. I think she'll be the first artist to have the same album as the top seller two years in a row.



Signature goes here!

Thanks for updating guiduc, I forgot all about it. Great sales for Adele as always, and surprisingly stable sales for Lana Del Ray. Also, it's weird how these Japanese acts appear which huge sales and then disappear of the charts the following week...

Oh, and Madonnas new album is out in a few weeks. Any predictions about 1st week sales?



"Adele is one of the very few female singers I just don't like. Similar to Taylor Swift, I find her boring. I don't see what is appealing about the music she performs."

Better her then more silly stuff from Lady Gaga.



Wow! Good job FT Island for debuting at #12. ^_^